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As an adult who lives alone what do you do when you get really sick?
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panama chief
Member
ding ding ding ding this right here.
Complistic
Member
Go out in sweat pants for a chicken noodle soup run.
hogendaz85
Member
Don't worry about any of that and let it pass.
jobrro
Member
Stone cold.
SDCowboy
Member
How does living alone mean you can't ask your folks for help?
You suck it up.
Eventually you'll get better at predicting this stuff and prepare youself when you feel like you're coming down with something. Always keep a minimum stock of the essential stuff too.
Coloress_Kafka
Member
I just stock up on things when I get my prescription. When I'm feeling a little better and can take more solid foods I call a food delivery company and get Chinese food sent to me.
SliceSabre
Banned
Suffer in silence while my cat criticizes me for not giving him my full attention.
Otherwise I medicine the fuck up, make soup, lay on my couch and play video games. I tell my mom but this send her into a full panic because the rare times I get sick she assumes I am clearly dying.
Otherwise I medicine the fuck up, make soup, lay on my couch and play video games. I tell my mom but this send her into a full panic because the rare times I get sick she assumes I am clearly dying.
Not sure about them, but in my case my parents are a 3 hour drive away.
SDCowboy
Member
Well right, I mean if they live somewhat near by.
I live with my wife, but when I saw the 30 Rock episode with Liz almost choking to death by her own the thought really worried me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5rEbfLl3g
I can´t remember if I ever really was choking on something ever since I was a kid, but it´s still good to know this technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5rEbfLl3g
I can´t remember if I ever really was choking on something ever since I was a kid, but it´s still good to know this technique.
Alcotholic
Banned
When you're sick as a kid, you stay in bed and your parents bring you food and medicine. When you're sick as an adult, you have to get out of bed and make food and get medicine.
Phobophile
A scientist and gentleman in the manner of Batman.
I learned how to take care of myself by observing my parents take care of me as a child.
I lay in bed or on the couch and be sick, I always have a few cans of soup and various OTC medicines on hand. I only eat canned soup when I'm sick but if I have the flu I usually can't eat for a few days.
Do you have no friends you could ask? Why can't you ask your parents? If you are that sick order on Amazon with 1 day shipping.
However, I am not single so I ask my husband or my parents for help. Also, if I tell my parents I am sick they immediately ask if I need anything.
Do you have no friends you could ask? Why can't you ask your parents? If you are that sick order on Amazon with 1 day shipping.
However, I am not single so I ask my husband or my parents for help. Also, if I tell my parents I am sick they immediately ask if I need anything.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
These, pretty much. But I also have a grocery store (and a pharmacy) within 2 minutes walking distance, so unless I'm completely unable to do anything (which I don't think has ever happened) I can manage.
EDIT: Also totally this (but with two cats):
CrocMother
Banned
I've got a bunch of friend that live nearby.
On the flip side of this, if you have a friend that lives alone and they are sick, offer to go get them some groceries/medicine. It really means a lot.
On the flip side of this, if you have a friend that lives alone and they are sick, offer to go get them some groceries/medicine. It really means a lot.
King Gilga
Member
If for whatever reason I didn't have a couple days worth of stuff and some basic medicine at home I'd go buy some.
If I was dying so hard I couldn't I'd call a friend to pick me up some stuff or something.
If I was dying so hard I couldn't I'd call a friend to pick me up some stuff or something.
SolidusDave
Member
If it's anything like flu, food poisoning etc. deal with it alone. I don't like people seeing me in that weakened state anyway. Nor do I want to burden anyone even though I know they would be glad to help me.
No idea why so many grown ass men become whinny babies once they get a little cough.
I have medicine and feeling-sick-food reserves at home, but I can always also order them on demand like a pizza in my city.
If it were anything worse then I will need medical attention and go to the hospital/doctor.
The only real scenario where you would want to have someone at home is not sickness but accidents e.g. if you slipped in the bathroom on the weekend and become quadriplegic and because no one will come home you will slowly die from dehydration lying on the floor in your own piss/poop.
Sweet dreams :*
No idea why so many grown ass men become whinny babies once they get a little cough.
I have medicine and feeling-sick-food reserves at home, but I can always also order them on demand like a pizza in my city.
If it were anything worse then I will need medical attention and go to the hospital/doctor.
The only real scenario where you would want to have someone at home is not sickness but accidents e.g. if you slipped in the bathroom on the weekend and become quadriplegic and because no one will come home you will slowly die from dehydration lying on the floor in your own piss/poop.
Sweet dreams :*
Purchase and never eat until sick:
1) Cambell's chicken noodle soup and beef vegetable. 2) Saltine crackers 3) Powdered gatorade 4) Pepto bismal tablets
Have a thermometer and monitor the shit out of your temp.
The moment I start feeling sick I clean my bathroom. If im going to to be collapsing, vomiting, or stranded in my bathroom, its going to be clean.
1) Cambell's chicken noodle soup and beef vegetable. 2) Saltine crackers 3) Powdered gatorade 4) Pepto bismal tablets
Have a thermometer and monitor the shit out of your temp.
The moment I start feeling sick I clean my bathroom. If im going to to be collapsing, vomiting, or stranded in my bathroom, its going to be clean.
shawnbuddy
Member
You just try really hard not to die. It's tough.
ichigo kurosaki
Member
I'm VERY rarely sick. I have been living alone for a bit over a year now and all ok so far (hope I won't jinx it!).
Nemesis121
Member
First:See a doctor
Second: Take any medicine prescribed by the Doctor..
Third: Don't add any over the counter medications to what the doctor gave you, you live alone you may die alone for making a mistake, ask the doctor what over the counter stuff i can take with what you giving me.
Home remedies, ask your parents or someone you know for all natural stuff, i have a liquid Vit C, i take it with water every day i am sick, it flows into the blood stream faster in liquid form...
If you don't feel like you are getting better after 2-3 days on prescribed medication visit the doctor again or head straight to the Emergency room..
Second: Take any medicine prescribed by the Doctor..
Third: Don't add any over the counter medications to what the doctor gave you, you live alone you may die alone for making a mistake, ask the doctor what over the counter stuff i can take with what you giving me.
Home remedies, ask your parents or someone you know for all natural stuff, i have a liquid Vit C, i take it with water every day i am sick, it flows into the blood stream faster in liquid form...
If you don't feel like you are getting better after 2-3 days on prescribed medication visit the doctor again or head straight to the Emergency room..
Jason's Ultimatum
Member
Be sick naked.
GiantBombGamer
Member
Well I just bent over to pick my dog up and heard a crack in my lower back where I have some disc injuries, I collapsed onto the floor. I'm still here. Pretty much just going to ride our the spasms till its tolerable enough for me to stand up and get my TENS machine and some anti-inflammatories.
Alone life is rad.
Alone life is rad.
mhayes86
Member
This. Keep some stuff stocked just in case. A can of chicken noodle will last you a long while and is easy enough to heat up when you're sick.
Last time I was really sick and my wife was at work, I at least had some energy to run out and grab some pho, then slept the rest of the day after taking a few meds.
You visit the doctor every time you come down with a mild flu? That's nonsense.
And the doctor will likely just prescribe you painkillers. But then you go to the ER when you still feel sick after two days? Again, nonsense.
This just happened to me. I was out for a week. While I have family two miles away that I can call, it wasn't impossible to get to a store.
The best thing you can do is stock up on meds, make sure your expired stuff is replaced. Get some dayquil as well, which can give you some temporary relief so you can go to Walgreens/Rite Aid/whatever. Make sure you have plenty of water, cans of soup and all that jazz, then just ride it out. I did see a doctor, but that's because work requires a note after three days.
The best thing you can do is stock up on meds, make sure your expired stuff is replaced. Get some dayquil as well, which can give you some temporary relief so you can go to Walgreens/Rite Aid/whatever. Make sure you have plenty of water, cans of soup and all that jazz, then just ride it out. I did see a doctor, but that's because work requires a note after three days.
Lilalaunebaer
Member
I can order groceries online and get them delivered. Can do the same for prescription free medicine too. And the pharmacy is like 5 min on foot away. Screw preparing. I don´t look that far into the future.
Only been really sick once during the 10 years I've lived alone. Caught a really nasty stomach bug. Managed to sustain myself for 3 days on whatever stuff I had at home, but by then I'd developed an electrolyte imbalance and got some truly horrifying stomach cramps. Couldn't reverse it with homemade sugar/salt solutions. Didn't know anyone with a car and actually had to call an ambulance to take me to the hospital which was no more than a few hundred meters away because I could barely get out the door, let alone walk the way there. They put me on an IV and I recovered in short order, could walk myself home after no more than a few hours. Wasn't even seen by a doc but hey, they had more important stuff going on and I wasn't complaining.
Earthbound64
Banned
First two posts hit the high notes.
On a more practical note, though:
These.
Haha, yeah. I think of that episode every time I feel a bit queesy
It did motivate me to learn how to do a self-heimlich however, so I guess I'll have Tina Fey to think if I ever need to use it.Sleep it off and drink water until I can go to the store like an adult.
shawnbuddy
Member
Are you a young guy? When you get older and sicker you'll grow out of this. Doctors are there to help you, there's no reason not to accept this help.
My big worry about living alone I that there's a high chance I'll die alone if I get in an accident or have a heart attack or something. Like if I slipped in the shower, no one would find me in time.
Earthbound64
Banned
I'm 28. But this thread is about having the flu. I'd imagine people be able to kinda separate the flu from some life-threatening illness, but I might be off.
If you have never-before-seen symptoms or when you feel sicker than you reasonably should, by all means go visit a physician. But a doctor certainly isn't going to prescribe you anything substantial that you wouldn't be able to get over the counter for a flu. It's painkillers, fluids and bedrest.